Welcome to the Archdiocese of Cape Town

Cape Town is commonly known as the Mother City of South Africa, and is the first ecclesiastical territory to be established in Southern Africa (1818). You are most welcome to this website. It is hoped that it will inform you and provide you with any information you may require regarding this segment of the Catholic Church.
We also provide links to other websites which might interest you. If you require any information not included here, email us and we will do what we can to help.
If you have discovered this page by accident, you are especially welcome and we hope you will find it of some value and maybe help you to understand how the Catholic Church in Cape Town is trying to serve the community and so bring it closer to the Lord.

The see of the Archdiocese of Cape Town is currently vacant.

We have a dedicated website for Jubilee Year 2025. Please visit it by following the link below:

 

News & Events

Death of Mr Mandela

CATHOLIC CHURCH’S LETTER OF CONDOLENCE ON THE SAD OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF ROLIHLAHLA NELSON MANDELA Mama Graça Machel and the Mandela Family President Jacob Zuma and the Government of South Africa Fellow South Africans We heard of the death of Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela with great sadness. Nonetheless we cannot help but call to mind […]

HOT OFF THE PRESS!

Download the latest edition of the Archdiocesan News October – December 2013 Issue number 70 ↓

A4 coffee table book

This A4 coffee table book aims to pictorially celebrate the life of faith as it is being lived in our archdiocese in this Year of Faith. It displays a cross-section of parish life, religious communities, schools, sodalities and various groups in our archdiocese. It is available through parishes, and proceeds will help towards the building […]

GOD LOVE, LIFE and SEX

The bishops’ book GOD LOVE, LIFE and SEX was successfully launched by Archbishop Stephen Brislin at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council meeting at St Joseph’s, Montana on 13 July 2013. The pictures below show him autographing copies. Click on the following link to hear his comments on the book. It is available at the Chancery at […]